Do I Wear the Badge of an Oppressor?
by Kara Wibberding | 11 January 2025 How do I do good wearing the badge of those who have done evil? Standing on the porch of a Kenyan elementary school, I locked eyes with a woman at the school entrance. She stood in a tiny gap between the two gates, just big enough for her […]
Southern California Conference Reacts to “The Most Destructive Fire in LA History”
10 January 2025 | On Tuesday, January 7, 2025, Southern California flames rose to create what is now considered “the most destructive fire in LA (Los Angeles) history. Dubbed the Pacific Palisades Fire, the dry conditions and high winds caused wide-spread devastation, with Newsweek stating that “The fire was estimated to cover more than 11,802 […]
Do Ordinary Christians Need Exorcisms?
by Stephen Ferguson | 9 January 2025 “Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world”—1 John 4:1. Recently I had some Adventist friends ask my advice about demons. It had been put to them by […]
SATIRE: Kid Wonders Why Parents Have to Lock Door for “Prayer” Every Sabbath Afternoon
LOMA LINDA, California — Eight-year-old Timmy Holbrook is starting to ask some uncomfortable questions about his parents’ Sabbath afternoon habits, sources close to the family report. The inquisitive second-grader has been overheard wondering aloud why his mom and dad insist on locking their bedroom door for their “special prayer time” every week after potluck. “I […]
Los cristianos teocráticos y la nueva agenda política para Estados Unidos
En el discurso del movimiento adventista, los Estados Unidos tiene una importancia, no solo porque el movimiento surgió allí y en la actualidad tiene su sede en ese país. Pero, la interpretación tradicional adventista, ubica a los Estados Unidos en el escenario escatológico de Apocalipsis 13. Incluso, Ellen White y sus ayudantes literarios que escribieron […]
Smallest Pacemaker Revolutionizes Pediatric Care in Peru
08 January 2025 | Good Hope Adventist Clinic (CAGH) made medical history for implanting the first, and smallest, leadless pacemaker directly into the heart of a nine-year-old girl. Dr. Victor Fontinier, a specialist in electrophysiology and interventional cardiology, and Dr. Miguel Leal, cardiac electrophysiologist and director of electrophysiology at Emory Healthcare, were the specialists that […]
Is My Child a Jerk?
by Melody Tan | 8 January 2025 | Created more than 10 years ago, the subreddit abbreviated to AITA has some 23 million members at the time of writing. I won’t explain precisely what AITA stands for, due to its questionable language, but it could be paraphrased to say, “Am I The Jerk?” The AITA […]
ATSS: Jeffrey Gang, “Dietrich Bonhoeffer & the Rise of Christian Nationalism”
8 January 2025 | As Christian nationalism gains momentum, competing groups claim Dietrich Bonhoeffer as their champion. Yet the real Bonhoeffer story offers a striking warning about how faith becomes entangled with nationalism that many seem to miss. I will seek to cut through the mythology—from Hollywood films to politicized biographies—to examine how Bonhoeffer witnessed […]
SATIRE: Grown Adventist Man Demands Medal After Teaching Cradle Roll Sabbath School
Collegedale, Tennessee — Brad Thompson is demanding a medal and formal recognition from his church board after volunteering to teach the Cradle Roll Sabbath School class last week. Thompson, a 42-year-old accountant and father of three, claims his heroic act of leading a group of toddlers through a 30-minute lesson on Noah’s Ark deserves nothing […]
Confusing Revenge With Justice
by Robert Crux | 7 January 2025 | Throughout history people of faith have been conflicted by their moral imperative to be the church militant, while at the same time abiding by a moral imperative not to impose Christianity on people by force. Christianity in the United States has long been rooted in voluntary evangelism […]